Analysis of Adelgitha
Thomas Campbell 1777 (Glasgow) – 1844 (Boulogne-sur-Mer)
The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded,
And sad pale Adelgitha came,
When forth a valiant champion bounded,
And slew the slanderer of her fame.
She wept, delivered from her danger;
But when he knelt to claim her glove-
"Seek not!" she cried, "oh, gallant stranger,
For hapless Adelgitha's love.
For he is dead and in a foreign land
Whose arm should now have set me free;
And I must wear the willow garland
For him that's dead, or false to me."
"Nay! say not that his faith is tainted!"-
He raised his visor.-At the sight
She fell into his arms and fainted;
It was indeed her one true knight!
Scheme | ABABCDCD XEXE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101010 01111 1101010010 010100101 110101010 11111101 111111010 11011 1111000101 11111111 01110110 11111111 111111110 11110101 110111010 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 680 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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